Challenges to Legal Theory

Essays in Honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales

Challenges to Legal Theory offers the reader a fascinating journey through a variety of multi-disciplinary topics, ranging from law and literature, and law and religion, to legal philosophy and constitutional law. The collection reflects some of the challenges that the field of legal theory currently faces. It is compiled by a selection of international and Spanish scholars, whose essays are made available in English translation for the first time. The volume is based on a collection of essays, published in Spanish, in honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales, of Complutense University, Madrid, and brings the rich scholarship of pre-eminent Spanish scholars of law and legal theory to an international audience.
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2021
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María José Falcón y Tella is Professor of Legal Philosophy (1991) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of 30 books, many of them translated into different languages, such as Civil Disobedience (2004), Punishment and Culture (2006), Equity and Law (2008), A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law (2010), Jurisprudence in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law (2011), Justice and Law (2014) and Law and Literature (2016), all of them published with Brill/Nijhoff. She was awarded the “National Prize of Studies in Law” in 1987.

Juan Antonio Martinez MuÑoz is Professor of Legal Philosophy (2000) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been Director of the Department of Legal Philosophy of this University. He is the author of five books, such as El conocimiento jurídico (4th ed., 2019) and Derechos humanos. ¿Criterios de justicia o ideología política? (2nd ed., 2020) and has published more than fifty articles in his area of specialty.
Notes on Contributors

PART 1

Introduction
  María José Falcón y Tella

PART 2
Law and Literature

 Revenge in Literature
  María José Falcón y Tella

 Arbitration and Literature
  François Ost

 Clarín,Jurist
  Ignacio Torres Muro

 Some Brief Notes on Ezra Pound and Roman Law
  Faustino Martínez Martínez

 The Undeniable Humanism of Concepción Arenal
  María Eugenia Pérez Monte

PART 3
Constitutional Law

 Legal Interpretation
  Timothy Endicott

 The Constitutional Order
 Reforms and Ruptures
  Diego Valadés

 Normative Provisions and Legal Norms
 A Useful Distinction
  Francisco Javier Ezquiaga Ganuzas

 Some Notes on Equality and Legal Equality
  Victoria Iturralde Sesma

 On Equality
  Ramón Maciá Manso

PART 4
Legal Philosophy

 The Law of Nations in Giambattista Vico
  Carla Faralli

 Artificial Law and “Artificious” Rights
  María Amparo Grau Ruiz

 Bioethics and Legal Philosophy
 An Inevitable and Necessary Reflection
  María Casado

 Philosophical Reflection and the Law
  Juan Antonio Martínez Muñoz

 We Are All Vulnerable
 Human Capability, Corporeality and Dignity: Functional Diversity Examined in the Light of Martha C. Nussbaum’s Commitment to Justice
  Teresa García-Berrio Hernández

PART 5
Law and Religion

 Religious Autonomy and Labor Relations
 Reflections on Institutions with an Ethos
  Javier Martínez-Torrón

Religion, Beliefs, and Freedom of Speech
 The Disorientation of the European Court of Human Rights
  Rafael Palomino Lozano

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Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 350 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004439450

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